A smart city (also smarter city) uses digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Developing a smart city to better support growing urban population is a global and complex challenge and involves interdisciplinary fields. Key ‘smart’ sectors include transportation, cloud computing, networking, smart building, energy, health care, and water systems.

IEEE SmartCity-2018 is aiming to be a premier international conference in smart city. This conference is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart city include all aspects of smart city with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications.

SmartCity-2018 will be hosted in Exeter, the capital city of Devon and provides the county with a central base for education, medicine, religion, commerce and culture. The city is also home to the magnificent Exeter Cathedral, which dates back to Norman times. Exeter is also ideally placed to base a trip to branch out visiting places such as the famous Dartmoor National Park and the unspoilt beaches of the North and South Devon coastlines.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to SmartCity-2018. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be indexed by Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference.

Scope and Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Smart City

Smart Buildings

Smart Transportation

Smart Environment

Smart Economy

Smart People

Smart Living

Smart Mobility

Smart and connected communities

Smart Healthcare

Smart Home

Environment and Urban Monitoring

Deployments for Smart Cities

Smart Water System

Smart University and Smart Education

Smart emergency management

Smart manufacturing and logistics

Track 2: Enabling Technologies for Smart City

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Smart City

Internet-of-Things for Smart Cities

Future Internet Architecture and Protocols

Machine-to-machine communications

Mobile Computing

Wireless Communications

5G

Wireless sensor networks

Embedded Computing and fog computing

Smart mobile devices

Human-machine interfaces

Deployments for Smart Cities

Cloud Computing and Networking Infrastructure

Social Computing and Social Networks

Track 3: Smart Grid

Smart grid inspired data processing technologies

Smart grid inspired data communication and networking technologies

Smart metering and advanced measurement infrastructure

Demand response management (DRM)

Energy-efficient smart grid systems

Quality of Service assurance in smart grid systems

Cyber security and privacy in smart grid systems

Reliability, robustness, fault-tolerance, and self-healing

Smart grid system management and adaptation

Application-layer service engineering for smart grid

Testing and evaluation tools

Optical communications and networking in smart grid

Prototype systems and real-world deployment experiences

Track 4: Big Data and Data Mining

Big Data Architectures

Big Data Models and Algorithms

Big Data Management

Big Data Searching and Mining

Security and Privacy of Big Data

Big data for Enterprise and Government

Cloud Computing Techniques for Big Data

Big Data for Vertical Industries

Machine Learning and Data Mining

Big Data for Urban Informatics

Track 5: Smart City Services, Applications, Business and Social Issues

Business Ontologies and Models for Smart City

Digital Goods and Services for Smart City

Electronic Service Delivery

E-Marketing and Smart Economy

Innovative applications in business and government cases

Online Auctions and Technologies

Virtual Organizations and Teleworking

Citizen engagement and smart governance

Paper Submission Guidelines

All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (http://smartcity.ex.ac.uk/) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:
http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/

Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.